Improved shifting-rail for buggies



FRENCH & MEYER.

Buggy Shifting-Rail.

Patented Dec. 21, 1869 N4 PETERS. PHOTO Ll'HOGRAFH WASHINGTON waited $121M figment djijiiw.

Letters Patent No. 98,048, dated December 21, 1869. I

IMPROVED smr'rme-RAIL ron BUG-GIES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern Be it known that we, HARLOW FRENCH and Ronnn'r MEYER, of Bnii'alo, in the countyof Erie, in the State ot'Ne-w York, have invented certain new and construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l'represents a perspective view, and

Figure 2, a plan or top view of our said invention.

The nature of our invention consists in constructing a removable shifting-rail, with the prop-blocks, and slat-irons, or supports for the top of the carriage, in one piece, thereby insuring strength, durability, and simplicity of construction.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters in the several figures represent like parts in each- A represents the scat.

B, the back. H

C O and O O the framework supporting the back.

I) represents the removable rail.

E, the holes through which the ends of the framework pass.

They also pass through the stays F, to be fastened by nuts marked G, which draw the shoulder H down against it, and thereby hold it in place.

The projections J J and K K represent the supports, to which the top of the carriage is fastened.

The number of supports marked 0, and the, holes through the rail, marked E, may be varied, if desired, without altering the nature of the invention.

It will be readily seen that the shifting-rail can be taken oii', together with the top of the buggy, if required, and the back he returned to its place, and. fasb ened by the nuts G, so that the top can at any time be taken and repaired without the necessity of taking the back of the seat off with it, as in the old method of constructing carriage-rails.

Having described our in vcntion with sufficientclearness to enable others skilled in the art to construct and use the same,

What we ciaim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is--- The removable shifting-rail D, provided with the holes E, and having the projections J J and K K, (or

slat-irons and props for the top,) all formed or constructed of one piece, substantially as and for the purposes described.

HARLOW FRENCH. ROBERT MEYER. Witnesses:

JAMES Smosrnn, S. M. SANGSTER. 

